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Article #1011Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch)
From: William Shipley
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 09:55
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 09:55
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Michael Mellinger writes: > It's not the same thing. It's an incredible pain in the butt to type it > everytime. dwrite'ing it is a permanent alternative, which I don't like > either. One should be able to set the DISPLAY for a login session. Life gets worse (in this area) under 3.0, since you can't run .app wrappers easily from the command line (you have to cd to the directory and run the binary to make sure you pick up the resources), and ALL freshly compiled programs will be .app wrappers. Good-bye, single file executables. I wonder if there's a special heaven for cool NeXTstep features that fell by the wayside? If so, this one is up there with the Music Kit and Icon.app. -W
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!news From: wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu (William Shipley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Command-line apps now harder (was Re: Workspace HideOnAutoLaunch) Message-ID: <1992Sep2.095521.5784@u.washington.edu> Date: 2 Sep 92 09:55:21 GMT Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep2.095521.5784 References: <1992Sep1.222014.23776@Trirex.COM> Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Washington Lines: 15